I think in RBSD such as Krav Maga they will usually say to just give your wallet over rather than risk your life, then show a gun disarm with the disclaimer "we only do this part if we believe we are going to get shot anyway". I'm sure some are a little more delusional than that though.

Even with that disclaimer in front of disarming techniques, I wonder whether it does more harm or good. They may say that you should hand over your wallet, but they still teach you something that has you walking out thinking that you are better equipped to handle a gun to your face than you were before. This may or may not be true. Now, is this more likely to help, or to instil false confidence that gets you killed in a botched attempt to disarm somebody? **** if I know, but I wouldn’t place any large bets on the former.

Also a big part of self defense and weapons training (like what swat would do) is role playing. I figure the chances of finding ones self in such a situation make it not worth doing, that and I don't think its normally good for one's mental health to role play getting attacked over and over again.

Agreed, but also, for the reasons implicit in my above remarks, I think that gun disarms without realistic role playing to instil the habit of handing over a wallet, say, they may do more harm than good—so for average people I’d just steer clear of the whole thing. It may be different in high-risk professions and what not, but personally I have no interest in learning gun disarms.

Petter I agree with your comments 100%. I wouldn't train weapons disarms unless I were involved in law enforcement, which I'm not. Back when I did BJK I remember myself and another member tried role-playing self defense techniques with exactly what you said in mind, and it got boring for me pretty quickly. It wasn't something I would be willing to do often enough to be effective in anyway.

In case anyone thinks I'm flip flopping, my initial comment was only because someone said they think this incident disproves RBSD (or something like that), which I disagreed with.

Even with that disclaimer in front of disarming techniques, I wonder whether it does more harm or good. They may say that you should hand over your wallet, but they still teach you something that has you walking out thinking that you are better equipped to handle a gun to your face than you were before. This may or may not be true. Now, is this more likely to help, or to instil false confidence that gets you killed in a botched attempt to disarm somebody? **** if I know, but I wouldn’t place any large bets on the former.

Agreed, but also, for the reasons implicit in my above remarks, I think that gun disarms without realistic role playing to instil the habit of handing over a wallet, say, they may do more harm than good—so for average people I’d just steer clear of the whole thing. It may be different in high-risk professions and what not, but personally I have no interest in learning gun disarms.

anything that gives you falso confidence is bad. Trying to disarm somebody is a LAST resort when someobody is going to get hurt no matter what you do - when running away, giving away your wallet , begging for mercy , crying, pleading have all failed. Then knowing some sort of disarming technique might just come in useful.
I met someone who worked with the top knifie disarm guy in the American military in Thailand - he was working with Burmese guerillas . He told me that the only two times this top military guy had been in a real situation where he had to disarm someone he had been stabbed both times - he disarmed them but he still got stabbbed - and thats the best in the world...

There were about 150 people in the banquet hall when two men burst in, firing several times. Nedd scuffled with one of the intruders, and was shot. He later succumbed to his wounds, after being transported to the hospital.

This is why I like the fantasy world of comic books more than the real world.
In a comic book, Kearn would have not only saved the money and survived but developed a taste for the action donned a strange costume and fought crime as a hobby.